Randy's Blog

Do you believe in the inerrancy of the Christian Bible? Were it not so, then our belief system would be baseless with respect to acknowledging that God, Jesus Christ, the prospect of everlasting life, etc...actually exists. Otherwise, our belief system is based solely on nothing but the "world according to us." It would be the equivalent of declaring ourselves god.  The evidence of the Bible's truth and inerrancy is demonstrated through the validity of 6000+ years of verifiable historical record, the confirmation of prophecies already fulfilled, as well as an individual's internal spiritual realization that the Bible is true and legitimate in its entirety. Those who are spiritually open will recognize the Bible as truth. Those who are not, but whose beliefs are grounded in the wisdom of the World, will not recognize the spiritual truths in the Bible, and they will reject the Bible as the inerrant Word of God. If rejecting the inerrancy of the Christian Bible, then tha...

When Jesus seemingly spoke in riddles, stories, and illustrations, He did so on purpose. The  common man did not understand them because they were spiritually deaf and blind, unable to discern the meaning of spiritual truths.  The ancient "believers" spiritually understood Jesus' concepts because they possessed a spiritual awareness that enabled them to spiritually understand the parables, stories, and illustrations Jesus used, and they were able to be discerned by the listener because they were spiritually open to the God's truths.  Jesus spoke in parables and illustrations that required an open spiritual mind for the meaning of the parables, stories, and illustrations to be fully understood in the spiritual sense, and He did it on purpose, so that only those who were seeing and able to hear His truths would understand them. "The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them becau...

A man said he wanted to follow Jesus, but the man asked if he could first go and bury his father.  Jesus replied to the man, “ Let the dead bury their own dead,”  b ut you go and proclaim the Kingdom of God (LUKE 9:59-60).  What did Jesus mean by the statement "Let the dead bury their own dead?" Jesus was saying that the man should let those who are still physically alive, but spiritually dead, bury their own physically and spiritually dead. Jesus was implying that the man who wanted to bury his father first, who was physically dead and spiritually dead, should prioritize the spreading of the Word over burying his father first, who died lost, without a commitment to God.  This implies the importance of a commitment to God over the obligations of daily life, while we still are physically living, and that after we have physically died, their is no second chance.  It implies that the obligations of life should not be prioritized in lieu of spreading God's Word....

Belief in Jesus Christ as the Son of God, and our belief that He is the only intermediary between mankind and God, is what results in the gift of everlasting life from God to mankind, if they are believer's in Jesus Christ as the Son of God, and the redeemer of mankind. However, spiritual rewards are achieved by the believer in addition to the gift of God of everlasting life in paradise, if we believe in Jesus Christ as savior.  Heavenly spiritual rewards are not the same as everlasting life in paradise. Demonstrating sincere belief entails more than just attending church every Sunday.  It means having faith that Jesus Christ will intervene with God on our behalf, absolving us of all sin before God the Father. God the Father has promised:  "He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the West  ( Psalm 103:12 ). " I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their  sins ( Jeremiah 31 :34 , NLT)." As believers, we're commanded by...